Ernst, Morris
Born: Jan 26, 1888 AD
Died: 1976 AD, at 87 years of age.
Nationality: Unknown
Categories:
Lawyers
1888 - Born on the 26th of January.
1915 - He co-founded the law firm Greenbaum.
1917 - He helped found the National Civil Liberties Bureau, which would later
become the American Civil Liberties Union.
1933 - He successfully defended James Joyce's banned novel "Ulysses" against obscenity charges.
1940 - He served as a head of the American Civil Liberties Union.
- He agreed to bar communist from employment there and even discouraged their membership.
1976 - He died in this year.
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